Mathew Andersen Dear Pastor: I was going to tell a bit about myself to introduce this letter but, as I spill my guts enough throughout the article, that would be rather like bringing owls to Athens. I do want to say this one thing about myself, though. I was a pastor in the LCMS for twenty-five…
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A Presentation at the Daystar Free Conference Portland, OR, 16-19 January 2000 By David G. Truemper The conversation – and frequent banter – about the ministry, the church, and the reign of freedom therein has occupied a great deal of the Daystar online conversation for the better part of a year. Our organizers/leaders invited a…
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By Matthew Becker My friend, Dr. Edward Schroeder, often asks the question, “How does one commend good works without losing the gospel promise?” I think that is a good question. Nonetheless, as many others point out, we Lutheran Christians have not done a very good job of rightly and effectively joining the two aspects of…
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By David Benke As a lad in Old Milwaukee, when drivers’ licenses were available at the tender age of sixteen, the only place to be and the only thing to do on a summer Saturday night was “bombin’ down the Avenue.” Wisconsin Avenue, that is. Slow driving down the straight wide center of the city….
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By Matthew Becker Law, Life, and the Living God: The Third Use of the Law in Modern American Lutheranism. By Scott R. Murray. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2002. 250 pages. This book began as a dissertation at New Orleans Baptist Seminary. The author, Scott R. Murray, is a 1983 graduate of Concordia Theological Seminary,…
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By Matthew Becker Daystar began in 1999 as a small online network of individuals in the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) who were concerned about theological issues and problems in and beyond their church body. Organized by Professor Robert Schmidt and Professor Matthew Becker, along with the help of two other LCMS members, the network grew…
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By Dale Krueger Prior to his Damascus experience, Paul was thoroughly immersed in the study of the Law. The Spirit of the living Christ so transformed him that he saw himself as even being “crucified with Christ” (2:20). Now he saw the Law from a totally different perspective. He proclaimed the evangelical message that had…
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